So, I committed inital implemetation of new config infrastructure. It sucks quite a bit now - all messy, buggy, probably has bunch of memory leaks, etc. But it is something workable now. Take a look at cservimpl::ServerConfig and cservimpl::DummyServerConfig (seconf one being simple implementation of config class) -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com